The AI‑Native
Web System.
A living reference for the SDS public web experience. The brand now leads with AI‑Native as a stamped descriptor — always hyphenated, capital A‑N — applied to the platform, the workflow language, and the section-head pattern. The plum stage, sage / bone interludes and the single coral CTA per screen remain unchanged.
AI‑Native, always hyphenated.
Capital A, lowercase i, non-breaking hyphen, capital N. Use as a descriptor for the platform, not a feature: “the AI‑Native Platform,” “AI‑Native workflow automation.” Never “AI native” or “AI-powered.”
Confident, not loud.
Sentences carry one idea. Headlines pair muted phrases with one lavender or coral word. We say what the platform does, not what it could do.
Fast, soft, intentional.
Every transition lands on ease-out-soft in 150–320ms. Nothing bounces. Hover lifts a few pixels; CTAs nudge their arrow.
Color.
Eight brand colors, organized into a small set of semantic roles. Plum dominates marketing surfaces; sage and bone return us to neutral; coral commits the visitor to an action; lavender highlights what matters most in language.
| Token | Maps to | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| --bg | Sage | Default light page background. Bright marketing surfaces, doc bodies. |
| --bg-alt | Bone | Card surface on light backgrounds. Used when bone sits over sage. |
| --bg-dark | Plum | Default dark surface — most marketing sections live here. |
| --surface-alt | #F3EEE4 | Warmer panel on light pages. Use sparingly — table headers, callouts. |
| --fg1 / --fg2 / --fg3 | Plum @ 100 / 72 / 52% | Primary, secondary, tertiary text on light surfaces. Three is the cap. |
| --fg-inverse | Sage | Body text on plum. (We use Bone for headlines, Sage for body — softer.) |
| --accent | Coral | One per screen. Primary CTA, hero indicator, single emphasized word. |
| --accent-2 | Lavender | Headline emphasis, eyebrow on dark, decorative geometry. |
| --border / --border-strong | Plum @ 12 / 35% | Hairlines on light. Borders are quiet; let surfaces do the structuring. |
| --success / --warning / --danger | #2F8F5E / #D99A2B / #C44A3A | State only — never used as accents. Coral & danger are deliberately distinct. |
A 70 / 20 / 7 / 3 distribution keeps the brand consistent across a long scroll. Coral never exceeds ~3% of a section's area — it's an arrow, not a wall.
Type.
One typeface — Space Grotesk — across display, headings, body and UI. Its slight humanist curves keep dense layouts approachable; its tight letterforms hold up at 128 px on the hero. We pair it with a system mono for code, kickers, and timestamps.
with AI‑Native automation.
Split-line H2
The signature pattern: two-line H2s, second line emphasized. First line sets up, second pays off. Break with <br>; never trust the wrap.
One emphasized phrase
Headlines pick exactly one phrase to set in lavender or coral. The rest stays bone. If everything is emphasized, nothing is.
AI‑Native stamp
Use AI‑Native with a non-breaking hyphen so it never wraps. Capital A, lowercase i, capital N. Never “AI native” or “AI-powered.”
Unified solutions
that orchestrate
end-to-end workflows.
First line sets up. Middle line carries the one accent word. Final line lands the idea. Every section head on the marketing site follows this anatomy.
Spacing.
A 4 px base scale, doubling-with-a-comma. Use the named tokens — not raw pixels — so
section rhythm stays in sync across pages. Sections breathe at --sp-9 top & bottom (96 px) on desktop.
96 px top & bottom
Desktop section breathing room. Tighten to 64 px when two sections share a single message.
1280 max · 80 gutter
All marketing content sits inside .container — full-bleed art lives behind it.
12 columns · 24 gutter
Hero splits 7/5. Card rows are 4×3. Editorial blocks may break out — sparingly.
Radii.
Soft, not round. 6 px is the SDS default — applied to nearly everything that has an edge.
Pills are reserved for tags and the rare circular control.
Shadows.
Cards on plum stage rarely cast shadows — we rely on hairline borders. Shadows belong to light surfaces and to hover lifts. Three steps, all built around the plum hue at low alpha so they read warm.
Motion.
One easing curve does almost everything: cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 1).
It accelerates fast and lands soft — the right feel for confident, "we got this" UI.
−4 px · 280 ms
Cards translate up four pixels and gain Shadow LG. Never larger — we don't pop.
+3 px · 180 ms
The split CTA arrow scoots a few pixels right on hover. Hint of forward motion.
fadeUp · 600 ms
Hero and section heads fade in from +16 px. Stagger children by 120 ms.
Buttons & CTAs.
The signature is the split-arrow CTA: a label and an arrow well separated by a tint of the button color. It is the most-used component on the site. Everything else exists to support it.
Forms.
Inputs are quiet by default — a hairline border on a faint tint — and brighten to lavender on focus. Form chrome stays out of the way so the call-to-action button does the work.
Eyebrows & tags.
The eyebrow is how every section introduces itself — a square coral or lavender bullet followed by tracked uppercase text. Pill tags carry content metadata: "Featured Article", "Case Study", "Event".
0.18em (e.g. "The AI‑Native Platform"); standard section eyebrows at 0.08em. Symmetric squares on centered heroes only.Cards & tiles.
Three card archetypes carry most of the marketing site: the resource card (eyebrow / title / link), the solid tile (a single statement, one color), and the breakout (an oversized coral block with a white action strip).
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Iconography.
We standardize on Lucide — line, stroke 1.75, rounded
joins, in a 24-grid. Coral is reserved for the single most important icon on a screen — a
primary action. Everything else inherits plum or bone. Never emoji. Never Unicode glyphs.
Patterns & texture.
Four recurring background expressions. They live behind content — never compete with it. Dots fading from a corner; lavender washes; a coral glow over plum ink; a diamond network drifting across the dotted hero.
Dashboard chrome.
Marketing visuals borrow product-UI vocabulary: status pills, monospace timestamps, dotted dividers, and tracked column headers. The result is editorial visuals that still feel like software you can trust. Use sparingly — coral picks out the one most important data point per visual, nothing else.
Section system.
A long marketing page is a film score, not a checklist. We alternate plum and sage sections in a deliberate rhythm and break them with a coral or lavender interlude. Each section starts with an eyebrow, lands on one headline word in color, then commits to a single CTA.
Voice.
We talk like an operations team that has shipped — not a vendor pitching one. Short sentences. Real verbs. We point to specific outcomes ("$300K+ in annual savings"), not vague ones ("transformative impact"). When we use "AI", we say what it does.
Specific over sweeping
Dollars, hours, claims, files. Numbers earn the headline.
Confident, not louder
No exclamation marks. No "revolutionize." A period after "Driven" does the work.
Active verbs first
"Unifies." "Orchestrates." "Validates." Lead the sentence with the work.
"Unify Healthcare Operations with AI-Native Workflow Automation."
"Revolutionize your healthcare with cutting-edge AI-powered solutions for the next generation."
"Eliminating Paper Claims Unlocked $300K+ in Annual Savings."
"Customers see significant savings and operational improvements."
"Your clearinghouse shouldn't slow you down."
"Empower your business with our state-of-the-art clearinghouse capabilities."
Verbs we use
unify · orchestrate · validate · structure · enrich · normalize · route · resolve · transform · move · accelerate · build · ship
Phrases we avoid
revolutionize · best-in-class · cutting-edge · next-gen (alone) · synergize · empower · seamless (without saying how) · transform your business